Day in pictures: 9 April 2014

A collection of news photographs from around the world over the past 24 hours.

Brazilian designer Alessa Migani makes her way down the runway at the end of her Summer 2015 collection during the Fashion Rio show in Rio de Janeiro.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson (second from left) is pictured busking with members of the group The King's Parade at St Pancras train station in central London as he promotes a campaign to support musicians on the streets of the capital.

Chris Neil of the Ottawa Senators celebrates a power play goal by Jason Spezza (not pictured) against the New York Islanders during the second period at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

Hector Gaitan celebrated his 110th birthday on 3 April and has at different times in his life been a telegraph operator, a miner, an artist and a Nicaraguan Railway Company railroad employee.

Elephants spray water at tourists in celebration of the Songkran water festival in Thailand.

Britain's Prince George has carried out his first official engagement, playing with other babies at a nursery in Government House in Wellington in New Zealand. The eight-month old future king is in the country on a tour with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

An Indonesian mother votes while carrying her child in Lumajang, East Java.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (left) meets Irish President Michael D Higgins at Downing Street on the second day of his historic visit to the UK.